Just Do Something: A Liberating Approach to Finding God's Will

by Kevin DeYoung

We’ve assumed that we’ll experience heaven on earth, and then we get disappointed when earth seems so unheavenly.

We have little longing left for our reward in the next life because we’ve come to expect such rewarding experiences in this life.

Schwartz summarizes it well: One quickly learns that “What are you going to do when you graduate?” is not a question many students are eager to hear, let alone answer. It is hard to avoid the conclusion that my students might be better off with a little less talent or with a little more of a sense that they owed it to their families to settle down back home, or even a dose of Depression-era necessity—take the secure job and get on with it! With fewer options and more constraints, many trade-offs would be eliminated, and there would be less self-doubt, less of an effort to justify decisions, more satisfaction, and less second-guessing of the decisions once made.4

MAN, 91, DIES WAITING FOR WILL OF GOD Tupelo, Miss.—Walter Houston, described by family members as a devoted Christian, died Monday after waiting seventy years for God to give him clear direction about what to do with his life.

He worked hard, took chances,

showed constant initiative, and, by his own account, lived a pretty fulfilled life—all without searching desperately for fulfillment.

We’re not only living lives of vanity; our passion for God is often nothing more than a passion to have God make our search for vanity a successful one.